Enhance cultural well-being, individual and team effectiveness, and communication dynamics with workshops thoughtfully tailored to your unique context. Some of the workshops offered are:

Embark on a transformative journey to overall well-being tailored for Black women with the Willow Plan™ framework. Join our virtual 90-minute immersive workshop, delving into the profound connection between culture and wellness. Crafted for those seeking a transformative journey to complete health, this experience provides insights into how cultural practices influence well-being.

Receive actionable tips to enhance your complete health, and explore the reasons behind your actions when you're not well, from comfort shows to daily habits.

What You'll Experience:

• Insights & Actionable Tips: Uncover the profound impact of cultural practices on well-being and learn powerful ways to integrate culture into your daily wellness routine.

• Guided Exploration: Delve into the intersection of culture and complete well-being through engaging activities.

• Personalized Strategies: Craft a wellness plan tailored to your unique cultural identity.

Join a supportive member community that extends your well-being journey beyond the session. Here, you can explore, accept, and integrate your cultural identity into your story of well-being.

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This course is designed to provide behavioral health professionals with a comprehensive understanding of ethical considerations and dilemmas. Through theoretical exploration and practical case studies, participants will develop the skills and knowledge necessary to navigate the complex ethical landscape in their field.

The course begins by examining common ethical dilemmas and their connection to legal issues, fostering the ability to identify and analyze ethical problems in various contexts. Participants will explore the fundamental ethical principles that guide their profession, ensuring a solid foundation for ethical decision-making.

Confidentiality, a cornerstone of ethical practice, will be explored in depth. Participants will gain an understanding of its limitations across different contexts, including the implications of social media, age of consent, mandated reporting, and compliance with HIPAA regulations.

The course delves into the ethical considerations surrounding public representations and advertising in mental and behavioral health. Participants will critically analyze the ethical implications of these practices and their impact on clients and the profession.

A crucial aspect of ethical practice is the duty to protect individuals, and participants will investigate landmark rulings such as Tarasoff and Ewing that establish professional responsibility in this regard. Understanding these situations' legal and ethical obligations is essential for mental and behavioral health practitioners.

The importance of competence will be emphasized, and participants will learn about the steps necessary to maintain professional competence. Topics covered include ongoing education, staying abreast of emerging research and practices, and seeking supervision or consultation when working outside one's expertise.

Informed consent, its ethical implications, and its role in establishing boundaries within the therapeutic relationship will be thoroughly explored. Participants will understand the importance of informed consent in promoting client autonomy and fostering a therapeutic alliance.
The dynamics of dual relationships in therapy will be examined, focusing on the ethical violations associated with engaging in sexual relationships with clients. Participants will gain the knowledge and skills necessary to recognize and navigate the complexities of dual relationships in an ethical manner.

The course will also address ethical practice's role in involuntary treatment in mental and behavioral health settings. Participants will explore the ethical considerations and legal frameworks that guide decision-making in these challenging situations.

Throughout the course, participants will learn to apply ethical decision-making frameworks that consider risk tolerance, cultural humility, and specific models relevant to the mental and behavioral health field. Case studies and interactive discussions will provide opportunities to practice ethical decision-making skills in realistic scenarios.

By the end of the course, participants will have developed a comprehensive understanding of ethical principles, dilemmas, and best practices in the mental and behavioral health profession. They will be equipped with the knowledge and skills necessary to navigate ethical challenges with confidence and integrity, ensuring the well-being of their clients and upholding the highest standards of professional practice.

Learning Objectives

• Develop the ability to identify common ethical dilemmas, understand the connection between ethical and legal issues, and analyze how ethical problems arise in various contexts.

• Explore and articulate the fundamental ethical principles that guide mental and behavioral health professionals in their practice.

• Examine the concept of confidentiality and its limitations across different contexts, including social media, age of consent, mandated reporting, and compliance with HIPAA regulations.

• Analyze and recognize ethical issues that arise in public representations and advertising within the mental and behavioral health field.

• Investigate the Tarasoff and Ewing rulings and comprehend their significance regarding the professional duty to protect individuals in mental and behavioral health practice.

• Understand the importance of competence and acquire knowledge of the steps necessary for mental and behavioral health providers to maintain their professional competence.

• Explore the concept of informed consent, its ethical implications, and its relationship to establishing boundaries in the mental and behavioral health profession.

• Identify and evaluate the dynamics of dual relationships in therapy, specifically focusing on the ethical violations associated with engaging in sexual relationships with clients.

• Recognize and examine the role of ethical practice in the context of involuntary treatment in mental and behavioral health settings.

• Describe and apply ethical decision-making frameworks, considering factors such as risk tolerance, cultural humility, and specific decision-making models relevant to the mental and behavioral health field.

Whole Health Action Management (WHAM) is a peer-centered program for people with chronic behavioral health and physical health conditions that promote self-management. Developed by the Center for Integrated Health Solutions (CIHS), the training and associated participants guide were informed and driven by individuals with mental illnesses and substance use disorders. The skills learned in WHAM helps participants engage in self-management and crystallize goals to achieve better whole health and wellness. WHAM uses 10 science-based whole health and resilience factors to support participants in achieving a person-centered goal, which include, but are not limited to stress management, support network, and cognitive skills to avoid negative thinking.

By participating in the Whole Health Action Management workshop, people will:

• Learn the 10 domains of whole health, and how each one has an impact on their mental health, substance dependence (as relevant), and overall health and resiliency

• Learn the Five Keys to Success

• Set a physical health goal

• Strive for and meet that health goal (or revise goals, as personally needed)

• Monitor their health goal and maintain motivation

• Receive peer support directly targeting their health goal(s) in a group and individual format

• Learn more about recovery and whole health as part of the weekly peer support process

Every community, population, and group has its own culture, but how is culture understood when it is mainly comprised of unwritten rules? Culture is more than age, race, gender, and socioeconomic status. During this workshop, attendees will be able to list the components of culture and assess their self-identified culture. The impact of implicit bias on professionalism will be discussed. Attendees will be able to state the difference between cultural competence, cultural awareness, cultural sensitivity, and cultural humility. At the end of this workshop, attendees will have constructed effective strategies for communication that addresses decreases microaggressions and builds relationships of trust.

During this 6 CEU, PCB approved training, attendees will learn:

• List components of culture, and explain differences between cultural competence, cultural awareness, cultural sensitivity, and cultural humility.

• Explain how power, bias, and privilege can affect the relationship between client and direct service professionals.

• Describe how stereotypes and microaggressions can affect the relationship between the client and direct service professionals.

• Construct strategies of effective communication to build trust as a direct service professional

Bubble baths and candles won't do. This four-hour training will teach attendees how to recognize and prevent burnout. For some, the line between professional and personal lives are thin. It is more effective to prevent burnout and to be able to recognize it before it becomes too much to handle. Unfortunately, burnout is often recognized too late.

Attendees will learn how to effectively manage their time and emotions at work. Additionally, this training will provide practical tools (e.g., Me, We, Cost, Free activity) for managing a professional and personal life. The audience for this training is organizations with staff who provide direct services.

Objectives of training/ what attendees will learn:

● Defining burnout and how it presents itself

● Exploration of your professional and personal identity

● Practical tools to minimize burnout and increase productivity

This PCB approved 2.5-hour workshop will cover the principles of Motivational Interviewing, which is an evidence-informed approach that centers on the client to enhance commitment and motivation to behavior change. From this workshop, attendees will define the Stages of Change and Motivational Interviewing and critique the benefits and challenges of the Stages of Change. At the end of this workshop, attendees will have developed a practical framework of Motivational Interviewing skills needed that benefits both staff and service recipients. The audience is for all levels of staff in behavioral health and human service agencies.

This six-hour PCB approved training will teach attendees what peers are and how to effectively implement peers in a medical setting. Budgeting is the smallest worry. For both medical professionals and behavioral health staff, implementing peers into a medical setting is more than making a face-to-face referral.

Attendees will learn the principles of peer support. The beliefs and knowledge of the peer community will also be discussed. Like every field, peer services in the medical setting has benefits and challenges. Also, this training will provide practical tools for effectively supporting peer staff. The audience for this training is medical professionals who would like to incorporate peers into traditional medical and physical health facilities.

Objectives of training/ what attendees will learn:

● Principles of peers (beliefs, knowledge, requirements, and professional development)

● Benefits and challenges of support services in a medical setting

● Practical tools to effectively support peer staff

This 4 ½ hour, PCB approved training will teach attendees the importance of maintaining professionalism as a support specialist. Having lived experience is a requirement for support specialist. However, for some, there may be limited professional experience. Attendees of this training will engage about the overview, benefits, and challenges of a support specialist. This training will also discuss effective communication with various populations. Lastly, attendees will learn how to implement practical tools for professionalism in a field where personal connections are made. The audience for this training are peers in recovery, addiction specialists, and behavioral health professionals.

Trauma-Informed Care (TIC) is an approach that assumes that a person is more likely than not to have a history of trauma. TIC recognizes and acknowledges the symptoms of trauma and the role trauma may play in a person’s life. TIC shifts the focus from “What is wrong?” to “What happened?”. TIC provides support to individuals that are accessible and appropriate.

Objectives:

• Understand the term “trauma-informed care,” and its relevance in organizational policies and procedures, as well as individual practices

• Compare trauma-specific and trauma-informed

• Recite the Six Principles of TIC

• Create framework to implement Six Principles of TIC in their work

• Identify at least one strategy aimed toward inclusivity

• Explain  the importance of TIC for their organization

Participants of this training will explore the applicable Federal and State law concerning confidentiality in the human service domain. This course will use case studies to guide participants in thinking critically about providing effective services that maintain confidentiality for service recipients. 

Objectives:

• Summarize HIPAA and CFR 42

• Describe the process of completing effective written agreements concerning confidential information

• Explain proper protocol when confidentiality is broken

• Evaluate compliance regarding requirements for Federal and state confidentiality laws

The physical and emotional toll for professionals can be overwhelming if proper precautions are not taken. Compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and burn-out are often interchanged and may have similar effects, but they are not the same. This training provides participants with practical tools in identifying and managing signs of each, as it is an integral part of being an effective professional. 

Objectives:

• Provide a brief overview of the foundation of vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue

• Define vicarious and secondary trauma, compassion fatigue, and compassion fatigue

• Assess compassion fatigue and burnout using the Quality of Life (QOL) assessment

• Assess practical ways to lower and manage compassion fatigue and secondary trauma

Communication is thought to be a simple process, but it is not. The lack of effective communication can greatly impact relationships, professional and personal. This training provides group and individual exercises to enhance effective communication skills, reduce conflict, and enhance connection with others. 

Objectives:

• Describe the Communication Model 

• Explain the principles of active listening 

• Develop practical tools for creating and maintaining boundaries 

Individuals will identify the behavioral levels that contribute to the development of a crisis and choose appropriate staff intervention for each level; identify useful non-verbal techniques in the prevention of acting out behavior; develop crisis intervention and verbal de-escalation skills; demonstrate principles of personal safety to avoid injury if behavior escalates to a physical level; use a model for action after an incident that will bring about necessary closure, debriefing, and re-establishment of a therapeutic relationship with the individuals involved.

Objectives: 

• Identify behavioral levels of a crisis and choose appropriate staff intervention for each level.

• Identify useful non-verbal techniques 

• Develop crisis intervention and verbal de-escalation skills

• Demonstrate principles of personal safety to avoid injury if behavior escalates to a physical level.

• Implement post-crisis plan to debrief with individuals involved in crisis

This training will explore the various types of fraud, waste, and abuse in federal and state-funded programs and services and how it affects program integrity. Participants of this training will be implored to critically analyze existing fraud, waste, and abuse regulations. This training will also explore trends in auditing and how to self-audit to increase effective program delivery.

Objectives: 

• Define and explain the different types of  fraud, waste, and abuse 

• Summarize various fraud, waste, and abuse regulations, including Federal False Claims Act (FCA) and the  Whistleblower Protections under FCA

• Identify and explain trends in program auditing